Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire - Softcover

Girard, René

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804747806 ISBN 13: 9780804747806

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2004

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"Readers of Oedipus Unbound will, I wager, both enjoy and find enlightenment in the newly-combined set of essays by Girard and Mark Anspach's expert introduction. My advice would be to take the book down from the shelf and take it home." -- COV&R Bulletin

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Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Rene Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and Girard succeeds in making us see an age-old myth in a wholly new light.The hard-to-find writings assembled here include three major early essays, never before available in English, which afford a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone-or anything-a rival desires. In a wide-ranging and provocative introduction, Mark R. Anspach presents fresh evidence for Girard's hypotheses from classical studies, literature, anthropology, and the life of Freud himself.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0804747806
• ISBN 13: 9780804747806
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
• Herausgeber: Anspach Mark R.